The owner of an adult entertainment website is attempting to find the people who it alleges illegally hacked into its website and stole information.

Lightspeed Media Corporation filed a petition for discovery Nov. 3 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against the Internet Service Providers that it claims knows the identities of the people who obtained passwords, then used them to break into its website.

Lightspeed Media claims it operates an adult entertainment website that is available to customers who sign up and pay a fee. The unknown hackers obtained Lightspeed's customers' passwords and were allowed access to the same content as paying members, according to the discovery.

"They could even download Petitioner's private content and disseminate that information to other unauthorized individuals," the discovery states.

Because Lightspeed does not know the identities of the people who it claims hacked into its website, it wants the defending companies to identify the perpetrators. They can do this by tracking the Internet Protocol address, which is unique for each Internet use, according to the discovery.